Questions before you commission the work.
Most YMS Studio projects go from kickoff to live in 6 to 12 weeks, depending on scope. A marketing site is faster; a bilingual store with payments takes longer. We give a fixed timeline before we start, and we build in-house, so there is no agency hand-off delay.
Yes. Every site can be fully bilingual, Arabic (RTL) and English (LTR), built natively rather than auto-translated. Layout, typography, and the booking and checkout flows all flip correctly for each language, so Egyptian and Gulf customers get a site that reads as if it were made for them.
Yes, you own your code outright from day one. There is no monthly licence trapping you and no proprietary builder you cannot leave. Hosting is on your own account. If you ever want to move or hire another team, everything is yours and fully documented.
Yes. We build sites and stores for clinics, real-estate developers, restaurants, and e-commerce brands. The common thread is operators who have outgrown templates and need something built around how their business actually runs.
Everything is hand-built in-house: no templates, no outsourcing, no junior hand-off. You work directly with the founder, and the same people who design your site are the ones who ship it. That is why clients who have outgrown template builders come to us.
Custom website projects start at EGP 50,000. The final price depends on pages, content, languages, integrations and the work needed to build and test them. Send us your brief; we will review fit and prepare a scoped proposal before work starts.
Freelancers are cheaper but can disappear mid-project; large agencies often hand you to a junior and bill for the brand name. YMS Studio is a third option: you work directly with the founder who builds your project, so you get a freelancer's focus with an agency's reliability and direct accountability behind it. Nothing is outsourced and nothing is templated.
We build custom-coded websites by default, not drag-and-drop templates. That means a site that loads faster, cannot be broken by a plugin update, and does exactly what your business needs instead of bending your business to fit a theme. Clients who have outgrown a WordPress or Wix template are usually why they come to us.
Yes. We audit the current site, map existing URLs, preserve useful content and plan redirects before rebuilding. We monitor indexing after launch. A migration can affect rankings, so we measure and address changes rather than promise none.
Yes. We build full e-commerce stores wired to the gateways Egyptian customers actually use: Paymob, Fawry, InstaPay, and card payments, plus cash on delivery and local shipping. You get a store you own outright, not a per-sale platform fee draining your margin.
Yes. Wherever you need to change things often (products, prices, listings, blog posts, booking slots) we build a simple admin panel so you can edit content yourself, without touching code or calling us. For anything more structural we are a message away, and because you own the code any developer can pick it up.
Your site lives on your own hosting account, so you are never locked into ours. We set it up with an SSL certificate, backups, and security hardening at launch, and offer an optional care plan for updates and monitoring afterward. Because you own the code and the accounts, you are never held hostage for a fix.
Yes. We design for mobile and test layouts down to 375px. We set performance targets and test the finished pages on real devices and connections. Actual loading speed depends on the final content, hosting and user connection.
Yes. We are based in Cairo and work remotely with clients in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and beyond. Arabic and English websites are within our scope when the project calls for both.
We build search foundations into the websites we design: crawlable pages, clear content structure, metadata, internal links, relevant schema and bilingual hreflang where needed. Ongoing SEO campaigns and rankings require separate work and cannot be guaranteed.
Because a social page is rented, not owned. Meta controls the audience, the reach, and the rules, and an Egyptian business can lose a Facebook or Instagram page it spent years building overnight, with no appeal and no way to export its customers. A website is an asset you own outright: your domain, your data, your Google rankings, and a checkout or booking flow no algorithm can throttle. Social brings attention; the website is the home you actually own and where the sale happens.
It depends on the business. Wix, Squarespace and Shopify can be sensible starting points. A custom website makes sense when the design, ownership or integrations you need exceed a template. We recommend the platform that fits the scope.
Web design is how the site looks and feels: layout, branding, typography, and the user experience. Web development is how it is built and what it does: the code, the database, integrations like Fawry or Paymob, and anything behind it such as a booking or checkout flow. A freelancer often does only one; YMS does both in-house, so the design that is approved is exactly what gets built, with nothing lost in a hand-off.
Three things compound: a technically sound, fast, mobile-first site; genuinely useful content built around what your customers search in Arabic and English; and authority earned over time through links and citations. We ship every site search-ready with clean structure, schema, bilingual hreflang, and fast Core Web Vitals, and can build the content and local-SEO foundation that lets it climb. Competitive terms take months, not days, so we target the specific, high-intent searches your buyers actually use first.
Wix sites can rank. Content quality, relevance, links and technical setup usually matter more than the builder alone. If your current site limits the experience or features you need, we can assess whether a rebuild is justified.
Yes, with a migration plan. We map old URLs to the new site, preserve valuable content and metadata, set redirects and monitor Search Console after launch. Rankings can fluctuate, so no agency can promise a move with zero loss.
Renting (Wix, Shopify, Squarespace) means you pay every month forever, the platform controls what you can change, and you can't take the real site with you — you're a tenant. Owning means a one-time custom build where the code, domain, data, and rankings are yours; host it cheaply anywhere, no per-seat or per-sale tax. Renting is fine to test an idea — once the business depends on the site, owning is almost always cheaper over three years.
Usually one of four things: it's brand-new and not indexed yet (give it weeks and submit it in Google Search Console); it's technically blocked or too slow; it has thin content that doesn't match what people search; or it has no authority — no other sites link to it. A pretty website alone doesn't rank. It needs to be indexed, fast, structured with the right content, and earning links over time. We build sites search-ready and can set the content + local-SEO foundation that gets you found.
Compare the price to what you're actually getting, and watch for traps. A template site and a custom build are different prices — paying custom money for a template is the classic rip-off. Red flags: a vague quote with no scope, the designer registering your domain or hosting in their name, monthly fees that hold the site hostage, being charged for every small edit, and 'SEO' with no specifics. You should always own your code, domain, and data outright. If a quote hides any of that, ask before you pay — or walk.
Send us your website brief. We review the business goal, audience, scope and budget, then arrange a short call if we are a fit. You receive a written proposal, timeline and clear ownership terms before committing. Website projects start at EGP 50,000.